Wow! This is really fascinating! Amazing how many of us have ancestors who lived in London Prentice Street (Hello Mike!). Lynne, it is quite a coincidence, but my 2 x gt.grandfather is listed as a Trunk Maker on the 1841 census. His age was given as 15? and he was lodging with other Trunk Makers in John Street. I must have a look at this again later today when I get more time. He was then an Ash Pan Maker and Hawker. Michael Martin died young in 1858 and his wife Jane was by 1861 living in No.2 House x 12 Court in LP Street - even closer to your ancestors, so there is no doubt that they would have known each other, and like Lyn said, the children would have played together. The family had moved out of the street by 1963 and Jane had remarried - but that's another story! Jane, I know, came from Roscommon. She was 14 when she married Michael at St Martins. I have no idea where Michael came from but funnily enough the surname of Gilmartin/Kilmartin is mostly found in Sligo!